Registrations open early November two thousand seventeen. Regitrations close five fifteen pm GMT twenty January two thousand eighteen. Sit HPAT Ireland twenty fourth February two thousand eighteen. Results released late June two thousand eighteen.

Privacy statement

By you registering to sit the HPAT – Ireland:

The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd (ABN 19 004 98 145) (ACER) ACER will collect your personal information to prepare for, administer and finalise all activities to satisfy the purposes for which you sat HPAT – Ireland, including:

investigating any suspected misconduct and determining and administering any consequences for misconduct; and

disclosing to the universities that require HPAT – Ireland scores, the CAO, the Tertiary Admissions Centres in Ireland and other persons or bodies connected with HPAT – Ireland and them collecting, storing, using, disclosing your personal information in accordance with their policies from time to time; and

disclosing to approved research bodies that have an interest in HPAT – Ireland data. Any research report will include de-identified data only.

(the Purpose).

The information ACER may collect about you includes your registration information, your payment details, your test answers and results, any application for special testing conditions and any communications you have with HPAT – Ireland.

Should you choose not to provide your relevant personal information then you may not be able to sit the HPAT – Ireland and/or receive the benefit of the Purpose;

If the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) is applicable to any personal information you provide to ACER as a result of your registration, you CONSENT to ACER in pursuit of the Purpose:

collecting and using any sensitive (such as health) information, for example, in case you need special consideration in sitting the HPAT – Ireland;

collecting, storing, using, disclosing and transferring OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA, for purposes related to your registration, your personal information in accordance with its privacy policy specified at the end of this statement and this statement. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that the persons to whom the information is disclosed outside of Australia have no obligation to abide by the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act. The consequences of this may be, the:

country of the person may not have similar privacy laws or measures by which you may pursue any of your rights in respect of privacy as that of Australia;

person may not handle your personal information in the manner designated under the Australian Privacy Principles and you may not have any mechanism with which to seek redress;

If your personal information is collected from a jurisdiction other than Australia where HPAT – Ireland is administered YOU CONSENT to, and acknowledge that, your personal information may be transferred to Australia in pursuit of the Purpose. In that instance your personal information will be collected, used, stored and disclosed in accordance with any applicable privacy law.

Should you not wish to provide the above consents or wish to access and/or amend your personal information or wish to make a complaint related to privacy please contact the HPAT – Ireland office at hpat-ireland@acer.org. For further information concerning how ACER handles your personal information or what privacy rights you have please see: https://www.acer.org/privacy.